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CANCELED: Uncle Dick vs. Cauczilla

Ryan Pater

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Categories: Theater, Comedy & Improv, Music

Dates: September 8, 2023 - September 28, 2023

Run Time: 60 mins

Venue: MAAS Building Studio

Overview

This show has been canceled.

Uncle Dick vs. Cauczilla is my Uncle Dick’s theatrical apology for his racist ways. He is taking to the stage to offer a grand gesture and make amends with his nephew. Attempting to create a piece of theater that will prove he’s not a racist, not a bad guy, not a dick uncle, Uncle Dick turns to song, dance, and elaborate science fiction storytelling to perform the “work” that he has done. Leaning on the safety of a fantastical story told by an idiot, Uncle Dick creates a scifi apology that allows for audiences to point and laugh at the horror of whiteness and skewer the straight white male together one last time… possibly destroying him/them forever…

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About the Artist

Ryan Pater is a Philly-based classically tamed actor, deadly serious deadpan educator, carolina-woods-born-singer-song-weaver, and a master in fine farted clowning. Ryan wishes everyday he was born in the future and attempts to make this dreams come true through his art; fine sci-fi performance with a dash of stupid and sublime. Ryan believes that we are all singers, writers, clowns, and dying.